yahyaal-samawi, iraqi poet, is one of the most prominent figures of resistance literature and contemporary arabic poetry. al-samawi defended his motherland with his poems, and in this course he went through torture, adversary, and moving out of his land. he started writing his resistance poems during ba’athist rule in iraq under saddam. he played an important role in opposing saddamists’ misgui...

tawfigh al-hakim is a contemporary egyptian playwright who is known as the father of arabic playwriting. he felt the need to search about the human character and its dimensions, so, this issue, has been the major them in his plays. through benefiting from humanistic theories in some western literary and philosophical schools, he has combined them with religious issues and eastern mythology to i...

al-jawahiri, one of the most illustrious contemporary classical poets of iraq, was born in the holy city of najaf to a cultured, scholarly, and cultivated family. the scientific and cultural environment of najaf, the literary and scientific richness of his familial atmosphere, and al-jawahiri’s poetic taste and talent caused him to turn to his predecessor poets’ works, especially the ones from ...

al-akhawayni bukhari(?-983 ad), great 10th century persian physician, in his extant book entitled hidayat(guide) discussed different aspects of some neurologic diseases that include prevention, clinical findings, treatment, and sometimes prognosis. without doubt, al-akhawayni’s knowledge on neurology, in addition to his familiarity to the works of his predecessors is obviously indebted to his e...

khāleq mirzāzādeh is a great ctitic and researcher in tajikistan. he was familiar with sa‘di’s works, especially golestān and boustān , from his teen years; and he created estimable researches about sa‘di through studying of and searching in his works. it should be mentioned that there are worthwhile researches done in tajikistan in relation to sa‘di’s eventful life and his literary heritage. t...

there is not much information about the life and the works of abū al-ma‘ālī nasrollāh munshī, and his only known work is a translation of kalila and dimna.  but he had composed poems too. there are three of his quatrains in lobab al-albab. there are also two lines of his arabic verses in his translation of kalila and dimna which had composed in praise of king bahram. it can be taken as another ...

al-ghallābī is rated as among the shī‘ī authors of the third/eighth century, through whom many historical traditions have been related in shī‘ī and sunnī sources. examining the status of al-ghallābī’s traditions in the two major sects (of shī‘a and sunnī), this writing is intended to find the reason for the permeation of his traditions into the sources belonging to the sunnīs – who are very cau...

Abu-al-Hassan, Ala-a`Ddeen Ali Ibn Abe`l-Hazm Ibn a`Nnafees al-Qurashi a`Ddimashqi (607-687 A.H.) was born in Damascus, wherein he grew up and was occupied studying sciences as syntax, jurisprudence, medicine, theology, tradition, logic, etc. His most well known masters in medicine were Muhadhdhib a`Ddeen a`Ddakhwar and Umran Israeli. After completing his studies, he left Damascus for Cairo, wh...